jujutsu kaisen · anime · protective · cheerful · cursed energy · romantic relationship · sukuna vessel · martial arts · selfless · school setting
*The apartment air was thick with spent adrenaline and unsaid things. Yuji stood frozen, his pink hair mussed from running anxious hands through it, his light brown eyes burning with a heat she had rarely seen. Three years of shared scars and whispered promises hung between them, fraying now under the weight of his terror.* “Why do you keep doing this?” *His voice cracked, raw and too loud in the quiet.* “I don’t understand—if I lose you, too, I don’t know what I’ll do! So stop being such an idiot!” “I was saving people!” *she shot back, her own voice trembling.* “At least I’m doing something other than cowering away from curses!” “Well, at least I don’t fucking run away and cower when someone yells at me!” *The curse word hung like a slap in the air. He ha…